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The territory of Jefferson was voted by the residents in 1859 but was never recognized by congress. Thus some of the counties have organization dates and records prior to 28 February 1861 when the Territory of Colorado was recognized. The 1860 census showed a population of about 33,000 men, and 1,500 women in the gold camps along the front range. This was taken when Colorado was still split between Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico and Utah. The first territorial assembly created the first seventeen counties in September 1861. They were Arapahoe, Boulder, Clear Creek, Costilla, Douglas, El Paso, Fremont, Gilpin, Guadalupe (later named Conejos), Huerfano, Jefferson, Lake, Larimer, Park, Pueblo, Summit and Weld. On August 1, 1876, President Ulysses S. Grant issued the proclamation of statehood. Colorado was the 38th state admitted to the Union. The center of the state is approximately 1,500 miles west of the Eastern coast of the United States, 800 miles east of the Western coast, 650 miles south of the northern border with Canada and 475 miles north of the southern border with Mexico. Colorado is bounded on the east by the states of Kansas and Nebraska , on the north by Nebraska and Wyoming , on the west by Utah ,on the South West by Arizona and on the south by New Mexico and Oklahoma. The boundary lines create an almost perfect rectangle, measuring approximately 387 miles from east to west and 276 miles from north to south and covering 104,247 square miles, including 450 square miles of bodies of water. Colorado is the eighth largest state when measured in square miles area. |
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